A HAPPY MAN

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 74, 24 September 1936, Page 9

A HAPPY MAN

EARLY IN THE LIMELIGHT

NEW ZEALAND'S DESIRES

(Received September 24, noon.)

GENEVA, September 23,

The Credentials Committee decided that the proposal to refer the question of Abyssinia's seat to The Hague was of no practical value because of the inevitable delay.

The Associated Press Agency says that this decision followed the course with which Mr. Jordan was associated from the outset. It is understood that when the possibility of obtaining a verdict from The Hague was first suggested Mr. Jordan emphasised that as the Assembly would probably still be confronted with the fact of Abyssinian representation pending a decision, it would be better to face up to the real issue, especially since the moral effect of so doing was likely to be tremendous. This view, which was advanced by other members of the committee, finally carried the day. Mr. Jordan, whose unusual experience it was to find himself on the occasion of his first visit to Geneva one of a small group of statesmen, on whom the eyes of the world were fixed, played a helpful and constructive part throughout the discussion.

Mr. Jordan told a representative of the Associated Press Agency: "I am happy to feel that New Zealand's desires, as our delegation knows them and as we have endeavoured to express them throughout, are largely shared by the committee and endorsed by a majority of the Assembly."